In February, I have been invited by the Academy for Visionautics to the Market of Realization at their Winter Academy. We have met each other as members of the former Hub Berlin.

I had been asked to spend the day with the participants in small expert groups – me working on the topic of Business Model Generation.

In the morning, the Visionautics team had created market stalls for us visiting experts and we each hosted a stall for the participants to ask their questions in order to start implementing their visions.

Questions that I collected at my stall:

How does a business model for a platform organization look like? I am currently writing some cases studies around the question: How do social change networks organize and finance themselves? And also The Hub has developed an interesting global business model (called the volcano model) based on the constellation model.

What’s the business model for a network of freelancers? I referred to the case of boscop, the Open Space cooperative in Berlin – a business as a network of practitioners working with Open Space.

We also talked about the Chaordic Stepping Stones from the Art of Hosting and how to use them for building a business model.

And somebody asked about the business model for a traveling global nomad – and I had to think about my friend Mary Alice from the Art of Hosting network who is working as a global nomadic storyteller.

In the afternoon, we took the most burning question What are new business models for education? into a speed workshop of one hour and practiced some of the tools from the Business Model Generator. By taking a case (an Intergenerational Social Innovators Summer Week) from the participant we explored the toolbox with:

Frauke this sounds awesome. Good to see, and learn that in Germany this work is hitting ground for socially driven businesses. Gathering11 in Melbourne last June has been a breathtaking experience for me, http://gathering11.net